Neck-yoke



(No Model.)

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NECK 11.

No. 411,458. Patented Sept. 24, 1888.

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VILLIAM LIKES, OF OSOEOLA, I()\VA.

N ECK-YOKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,458, dated September 24, 1889.

Application tiled March 5, 1889. Serial No. 301.969. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LlKEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Osceola, in the county of Clarke and State ot Iowa, have invented an Improved Neck-Yoke, of which the following` is a specification.

My device is one o1' that class adapted to be detachably connected with the front end of a wagon-pole and the harness on horses for the purpose of supporting the pole and keeping the horses a proper distance apart.

My invention consists in the manner of constructin g aloar and combining rings and links therewith to produce an improved article of manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the complete device ready to be applied to a pole, and Fig. 2 shows it combined with a pole as required for practical use.

A is a metal bar, preferably round iron, that is drawn out at its ends to produce inte gral loops B, adapted to receive and retain rings C, through which straps or chains oonnected with harness on the horses can readily be passed, and also rings cl and f. Three such rings are placed in each of the loops loefore the loops are closed by welding their eX-4 tremii'ies to the bar. i

G is a ring adapted to slip over the pole top on the end of the pole and to he detachably and flexibly connected with a pole7 as shown in hig. 2. It is permanently connected with the ends of the bar A by means of rings h, straight links il, and the rings cl in the loops B in such a manner that all the parts can. be compactly folded upon the loar A to economize space in pac-king and shipping, and also readily adjusted and applied to a pole as rcquired for practical use.

The rings f are twisted in such a manner that they will depend from the loops and loe in proper position to receive martingale straps or chains, that are connected with the harness on the horses in a common way.

I claim as my invention- An improved neck-yoke composed of a bar A, having integral loops B, in which are inclosed rings C, cl, and f, and the ring G, connected with the ends of the bar by means of rings d and 71 links t', and the loops B, sub stantially as shown and described, for the purposes stated.

WILLIAM LIKES.

NVitnesses:

A. S. JoHNsoN, C. D. RrssLEn. 

